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| Overall Rating: |   (2.3) |
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Address Book Importer actually works - Version: 1.2, 7/9/2004 07:17PM PST
John Sawyer
I just tried Address Book Importer (available here on Versiontracker), and found that it actually imports Outlook Express's contact file's email field (as well as many other fields that DBF2LDIF doesn't) into Apple's Mail application, as you'd expect a utility like this to do.
Very limited - Version: 1.2, 7/9/2004 06:16PM PST
John Sawyer
• Amazingly, at least for Outlook Express contact files, DBF2LDIF's External File Fields column (which shows the fields that are present in the source file) has no listing for email address, which is the main point behind a utility like this--yes, believe it or not, at least for Outlook Express contacts files (I haven't checked how it handles files for other email apps), it doesn't include the email address in the LDIF file it creates, so you have to manually re-enter all your address book email addresses. At least it converts a few of the more basic fields.
• Even with the demo's limit on the number of addresses (5), the app still has the longest splash screen nonregistered timeout of any shareware app--almost two minutes. These guys don't understand that a demo should have either a time delay before it can be used after launch, or limitations on its options, but not both.
• The field categories it will convert are a small subset of the field categories it sees in the source file (the readme file says "Only the first 45 (non empty) fields are available for display, and from these you can choose only 19 to include in the final LDIF file"; this isn't a basic limitation of the LDIF file format or of how many fields Apple's Mail app can display, so what gives? For many people, you're still going to have to re-enter a lot of data into the destination email app by hand.
• It has no fields for Company Address, Company Phone Number, etc., and only one entry for each type of field (can't list two home numbers, etc.), even though Mail can have these fields. The only fields DBF2LDIF will convert are ones simply named Title, Name (why isn't this called First Name?), Surname (why isn't this called Last Name?), Address (only the first line--incredible), Company, City, State, Zip, Telephone (why isn't this called Work Phone, since it has a separate "Home Phone" field?), Fax, Home Phone, Pager, Mobile, Email, and a few extra ones you can rename, but which are just munged together into Mail's notes field.
• Their documentation and parts of the app often call fields "fileds", even though they use the proper word "fields" elsewhere.
• The option to select "only non-empty" fields does nothing, after spending time looking at the source file--it doesn't check off any fields even if they contain text.
• Even with the demo's limit on the number of addresses (5), the app still has the longest splash screen nonregistered timeout of any shareware app--almost two minutes. These guys don't understand that a demo should have either a time delay before it can be used after launch, or limitations on its options, but not both.
• The field categories it will convert are a small subset of the field categories it sees in the source file (the readme file says "Only the first 45 (non empty) fields are available for display, and from these you can choose only 19 to include in the final LDIF file"; this isn't a basic limitation of the LDIF file format or of how many fields Apple's Mail app can display, so what gives? For many people, you're still going to have to re-enter a lot of data into the destination email app by hand.
• It has no fields for Company Address, Company Phone Number, etc., and only one entry for each type of field (can't list two home numbers, etc.), even though Mail can have these fields. The only fields DBF2LDIF will convert are ones simply named Title, Name (why isn't this called First Name?), Surname (why isn't this called Last Name?), Address (only the first line--incredible), Company, City, State, Zip, Telephone (why isn't this called Work Phone, since it has a separate "Home Phone" field?), Fax, Home Phone, Pager, Mobile, Email, and a few extra ones you can rename, but which are just munged together into Mail's notes field.
• Their documentation and parts of the app often call fields "fileds", even though they use the proper word "fields" elsewhere.
• The option to select "only non-empty" fields does nothing, after spending time looking at the source file--it doesn't check off any fields even if they contain text.
A Winner - Version: 1.2, 5/3/2003 11:16AM PST
junebug001
I was in a jam. Needed to get information out of OS9 Outlook Express, and Filemaker and Panorama databases into the OSX Adress Book. This gem worked like a breeze.
